Reel To Real: 5 Movies That Inspire Leadership Skills Every CEO Can Use To Get Better Results For Their Company (Part 2!)

Movies That Inspire Leadership: Audrey Hepburn famously said, “Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” And if you’re a CEO intent to lead your team to achieve better results, everything you need to know, you can learn in an underdog sports story.

Cindy Anderson’s powerful discussion around leadership traits was the catalyst for this fun series.  This is part 2 in our two part segment: Reel To Real, Movies That Inspire Leadership Skills For CEOs. (If you missed Part 1, check it out here!)  Earlier this week we dove into our first two picks on awesome sports-inspired movies that inspire courage and the leader within us all.

If you need permission to binge on some excellent flicks in the name of Leadership Development, here’s your ticket!

Got A Cool $1.6 Million To Burn? CEO Fraud And The Repercussions To A Business Like Yours

Here’s how you can lose $1.6 million from one email…the timeline goes something like this:

1. A short and simple email from your boss, asking you to immediately send a large sum of the company’s fund to a new bank account, supposedly given to him personally by the supplier.
2. You notice a few spelling errors, here and there. But it’s your boss, so you decide to let it go. You’re a little bit suspicious though of a supplier going directly to your boss instead of through you at accounting.
3. You decide to ignore it for now. You want to confirm with the supplier first. But then you start to worry that your boss might find out that you didn’t believe his email, so you decide against it.
4. You remember watching a funny TED video about this guy replying to spam, so you decide to check with your IT department first to make sure you’re not giving away money to some Nigerian prince.
5. But before you could, you receive another email from your boss, asking what’s taking you so long to transfer the funds. You think about how he rarely contacts you. But he’s contacting you now for this particular transaction, so it must be important.
6. You notice another spelling error. Glaring this time. But the boss – the one who hasn’t sent you an email for the two years you’ve been in the company – has emailed you twice now. Twice.
7. So with the overwhelming need to impress your boss, you go against all common sense, and you make the transfer.

…And that’s how you lose millions of dollars from a poorly spelled CEO Fraud email.